Reliability Evaluation of Power Capacitors in a Wind Turbine System

Dao Zhou; Frede Blaabjerg

doi:10.1109/APEC.2018.8341570

Reliability Evaluation of Power Capacitors in a Wind Turbine System

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Abstract

With the increasing penetration of wind power, reliable and cost-effective wind energy production is of more and more importance. The doubly-fed induction generator based partial-scale wind power converter is still dominating in the existing wind farms. In this paper, the reliability assessment of power capacitors is studied considering the annual mission profile. According to an electro-thermal stress evaluation, the time-to-failure distribution of both the dc-link capacitor and ac-side filter capacitor is detailed investigated. Aiming for the systemlevel reliability analysis, a reliability block diagram is used to bridge the gap between the Weibull distribution based component-level individual capacitor and the capacitor bank. A case study of a 2 MW wind power converter shows that the lifetime is significantly reduced from the individual capacitor to the capacitor bank. Besides, the dc-link capacitor bank dominates the lifetime consumption.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	APEC 2018 - 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition
Number of pages	6
Publisher	IEEE Press
Publication date	2018
Pages	3264-3269
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-1181-4
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-1180-7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2018.8341570
Publication status	Published - 2018
Event	33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2018 - San Antonio, United States Duration: 4 Mar 2018 → 8 Mar 2018

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Conference	33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2018
Country/Territory	United States
City	San Antonio
Period	04/03/2018 → 08/03/2018
Sponsor	IEEE Power Electronics Society (PELS), Industry Applications Society (IAS), Power Sources Manufacturers Association (PSMA)

Series	IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC)
Volume	2018
ISSN	2470-6647

Keywords

Capacitors
Reliability
Power harmonic filters
Harmonic analysis
Wind speed
Wind turbines
Wind power generation

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Zhou, D & Blaabjerg, F 2018, Reliability Evaluation of Power Capacitors in a Wind Turbine System. in APEC 2018 - 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. IEEE Press, IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), vol. 2018, pp. 3264-3269, 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition, APEC 2018, San Antonio, United States, 04/03/2018. https://doi.org/10.1109/APEC.2018.8341570

Reliability Evaluation of Power Capacitors in a Wind Turbine System. / Zhou, Dao ; Blaabjerg, Frede.
APEC 2018 - 33rd Annual IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition. IEEE Press, 2018. p. 3264-3269 (IEEE Applied Power Electronics Conference and Exposition (APEC), Vol. 2018).

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